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Master List: Your Favorite Coin Websites (Updated 8/28/2014)
I want to divide this up between Forums, Dealers, Auction websites, Legit coin grading companies, Coin Books, Clubs, Information pages, Mints, and Other. I will update this thread as suggestions come in (I will try to make the list of dealers as alphabetical as possible). If you have any other suggestions for categories,… -
Re: You have 100 Million and ten years: Could you corner the 1909-S VDB Market?
I think you could. 1st, how would you know if you achieved the goal? Not 435K as many are gone. Based on how many are G4 and below, somehow, someway, they circulated long and hard, and got lost, etc. If you troll the lower end, you will soak up the cheaper ones, driving out the "common people" til it is just MS64 and up,… -
Ethics of doctoring
While PCGS has taken a firm stand against coin doctoring, a respected company that grades paper money has this rather lax ethical stand on doctoring: Good note restorers are sometimes capable of amazing feats, and even the best experts are sometimes hard-pressed to determine what (if any) work has been done to a note. A… -
Re: End the Fed?
Yes, Mr. Carr, of course I know of your extensive knowledge of the striking coins and medals and have great respect for your expertise and contributions to this discussion board. My family owns the Merchant Financial Group, a company that my father and I started in 1985, after his 40 years of experience in the field. I… -
Since There Has Not Been A Teletrade Post In A Day Or Two ...
I would like to say that the President of Teletrade (Corey M.) and Greg Roberts protege from the Spectrum Group (Brian K.) invited me out to lunch yesterday at a great restaurant here in town "Charlie Palmers". I enjoyed a beet salad, the Scottish Salmon and an iced tea. Both Corey and Brian ordered Cheeseburgers and… -
Fake Canadian tokens linked to Mass. company
It is the largest scam of its kind in Canadian history, law enforcement officials say: a meticulously executed plot that for the last three years produced 5 million counterfeit Toronto subway tokens, silvery specimens so finely minted they rivaled the real ones produced by the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa. For the people… -
Re: World Trade Center Coins and Authencity
Hi, here's an article I was able to find, I don't know how much weight to give it as it's from a third hand source but I will post it here along with a link to it. http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/2003/Aug/975.html 'The World Trade Center was all about capitalism, so perhaps it isn't surprising that coins recovered… -
Re: Is RYK leaving us? :-(
<< <i>I wonder if this press release is coincidental or not… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doug Winter Announces First Quarter 2009 Results Portland, OR, April 29, 2009 – Doug Winter Numismatics (NYSE: DWN) today announced a net profit for the first quarter of 2009 of $7.49 million, or $0.079 per share. Net sales were $10.2… -
Noe indictment names "unwitting partners"
COIN SCANDAL Not all Noe deals involved criminals; indictment names unwitting partners Gailliot Zoom | Photo Reprints By MIKE WILKINSON and JAMES DREW BLADE STAFF WRITERS In its indictment of Tom Noe, a Lucas County grand jury identified a business network that it felt had participated in Mr. Noe's alleged crimes. It…
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